^ Hollins would be close to perfect for us & Dwight. You saw what he was able to do so consistently well with Marc & Zach? Imagine what he could do with Dwight & Pau? Plus, & more importantly for me, he specializes in defense and toughness. All of these things mentioned are the complete opposite of D'Antoni as in contrast they are his greatest weaknesses.

Alvin Gentry is only a tiny bit better than Mike D'antoni. They have the same philosophy and none of their teams ever played a lick of defense. No thanks.

If the Lakers are going to get anyone I'd prefer it to be Hollins now that Shaw is gone. But Hollins is going to get a head coaching job somewhere else cus our front office is stupid.

How would us being stupid be what makes Hollins get a head coaching job somewhere else?

If the Lakers go to Hollins and ask him to be assistant coach and he says no for a head coaching position it doesn't make us stupid.

Hollins is a great post coach but a terrible perimeter one.
D'antoni is a good perimeter coach, but a terrible post one.

They'd honestly work quite well together, especially with the double post philosophy that Hollins would bring that we could use both Gasol and Howard for.

Would really feed into Dwight wanting to "expand his game" here. With an assistant like Hollins around he definitely would as it would be implemented into the offense and it would allow D'antoni to focus on the perimeter scoring, while Hollins can focus on the post sets. Each their strength and we'd have the players to pull both off.

If Hollins would forgo that for a chance to head coach somewhere then more power to him. I just want us to go after him for that assistant coach position anyway.

Hollins is a great post coach but a terrible perimeter one.
D'antoni is a good perimeter coach, but a terrible post one.

I don't think that's entirely fair. It's not like Hollins had the necessary weapons on the perimeter to be consistently effective on the perimeter. That's on management. In MDA's case however, he HAD & HAS the weapons to be effective in the post and he's just not really good at it. He just prefers lower-percentage shots not working to his best player's strengths and it really pains & costs him a lot just to even attempt to adapt & adjust.

I don't think that's entirely fair. It's not like Hollins had the necessary weapons on the perimeter to be consistently effective on the perimeter. That's on management.

I watch at how they ran their offense when they had Rudy Gay, it was just as unstructured around the perimeter he just could score from there.

Hollins strength is and always has been in his post up game. His team didn't run double screens along the perimeter or ones that got perimeter players a lot of open shots. Even with Rudy Gay there it was 99% of the time "Rudy Gay iso" which lead to some bad shots and some broken plays. So I can't give Hollins a pass there.

Hollins strength lays in his post coaching.

Let's not forget the Grizzlies were still a losing team WITH Rudy Gay and Hollins coaching, it wasn't until Randolph a post player, got there that the team started winning. Post proficiency is and always has been Hollins's strength. Any time he tried to run anything perimeter related, even with Rudy Gay it looked atrocious.

Get Hollins coaching the double post sets with Dwight and Pau, and keep D'antoni where he should be which is on the perimeter and through pick and rolls which we do have the team to run both, our offense would be effective.

I'm saying all this in theory though as I don't see Hollins going much longer without getting hired.

We also need to have wings players capable of playing the kind of defense Hollins would require.

I don't really see the need to make a distinction. Roster and coach are both huge problems that prevent the Lakers from competing. When you're as bad as the Lakers were this season, you have multiple major issues. The Lakers didn't make the playoffs until the final game of the season.

D'Antoni wouldn't win with the Heat's roster. Phil Jackson wouldn't win with the Lakers' current roster.

Only kobe, Shaq,Wade,LeBron,Parker,Dirk and Billups won Finals MVPs since the JORDAN ERA, where only Jordan and hakeem won.

The point I'm trying to make is, MOST of those guys were Top 1,2,3 in the league , in the years they won.

Dirk and CB being the exception, with one beingg on an exceptionally talented offense team, and one being on the top 3 defenses EVER in any sport.

So, going back to D'Antoni's career- he had Nash, who is a little guard with no defense and he had Amare who was still a KID, and THAt was supposed to win a title?

I mean seriously...

Never in thel eague has a team like THAT won, with no Magic and Kareem or anything remotely CLOSE to that, let alone a James Worthy,m Cooper, Byron Scott, etc.

And again, I didn't see a more inept coach than Spo in his first year with LeBron.

i'll go one step further. Mike Brown had training camp and pre-season and

I know people might not remember, but with Mike brown, we weren't "almost coming back" like with a lot of D'Antoni losses. We was getting BEAT DOWN, with no remorse, and we were ALMOST healthy during that small stretch, so MDA had the guys ears, more than the previous guy.